O papel do aluno-repórter na construção do conhecimento e no exercício da cidadania na escola do campo

Abstract

The reinforcement of alternative communication spaces enables historically excluded people in mainstream media to have a voice and assume the role of information producers and disseminators through their own media channels. Moreover, an effort is evident to make education, in formal and non formal meanings, a path for knowledge building and democratic attitudes regarding to issues of collective interest. In this scenario emerged, in a rural school in Santa Rosa/RS, a Student-Reporter Rural Cooperative, whose members have the mission to promote the potential, claims and aims at rural public policy. Young students in a democratic process, mostly farmer’s children, leverage information and communication technologies to produce content in own making newspaper and blog. The central purpose of this article is to understand how the role of student-reporter can contribute to the young set up collective construction of knowledge and the exercise of citizenship in rural areas, in a perspective of community and democratic attitudes. The Cooperative, as social organization, is the result of educational communication process, which included workshops and cooperative communication. With autonomy granted to students-reporters, they were able to appreciated the diversity of knowledge available to the public, since the students got the opportunity not only to consume information but also produce it, discuss and disclose in accordance with they’re communities needs, desires and interests.